The tax/fine on a person making $43K who doesn’t want or can’t afford insurance will only equal about $860 (vs. thousands in premiums and deductibles), and $860 will barely cover any actual medical procedure.

Hospitals will still be required by law to provide care regardless of insurance coverage or ability to pay.

Can you explain how Obamacare does anything to change the free rider problem?

PS how are you enjoying approval ratings similar to giant asian hornets?

triple on October 17, 2013 at 3:20 AM

+1

That said, I remember being unpopular with my three year old when I wouldn’t buy her a toy every time we went to the store. You accept that sort of thing when you’re trying to teach children about allowances and managing money, and you try to do the job well enough that they can care for themselves after you’re gone.

I’m sure any decent parent would explain how it’s all part of being a responsible adult and showing your love by teaching responsibility.

But yeah, you’re right, and you make a great point about approval ratings. Toys on the credit card will win every single time.

The “1” position was held by the slave states. The abolitionist states wanted slaves (“all other persons” not “blacks”) not to be counted (the “0” position) for reasons of representation to limit slave state power in the House.

Leftists constantly misuse these points. Free blacks (some of whom owned slaves) counted as “1” and slaves were counted as 3/5. When I ask Leftsist in debate if they would have preferred that slaves count as “1”, they quickly assent… not realizing they are siding with slave states.

]]>By: ToddPAhttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/16/cory-booker-projected-winner-of-nj-senate-race/comment-page-2/#comment-7410608
Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:40:18 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=283292#comment-7410608apparently, the NYT is unaware there is a Black Man
already in the US Senate…they are sleeping better
at night now, because we once again have an AA elected
to the US Senate….you see Tim Scott is only 3/5 a man,
or is it 2/3??

There are very few things that could have derailed the inevitable… and they know it.

mankai on October 17, 2013 at 11:28 AM

And that is one of the biggest challenges the country faces since corruption, a multitude of lies, and malfeasance, which should have derailed Booker’s campaign, all get overlooked because ideology / party loyalty trumps everything else when one has a (D) after their name.

Cory Booker is just the latest of a line of corrupt lying Democrats to represent the state of New Jersey in the US Senate.

Okay, we get it: Obama is a winning politician. What’s in serious doubt is whether he will be remembered as a successful president.

No doubt here. He’ll be remembered as a miserbale failure… in the underground anyway… the official state textbooks coming from the Central Committee on Education will list him as Dear Leader of the Glorious New Order.

I only note this to show that we all know how far gone much of the country is. LIVs dominate the electorate. Booker is a charismatic Dem in a NE state. There are very few things that could have derailed the inevitable… and they know it.

The White House likes to conflate the GOP’s public bargaining positions with their privately held ones. The president and his team may not understand the difference, which I doubt, or they’re looking for excuses to avoid a budget deal. Pragmatic, good-governance Democrats harbor such doubts about their president.

“We can govern by either leadership or crisis,” said Leon Panetta, a former Democratic congressman who served in Washington with nine presidents. “If leadership is not there, then we govern by crisis.”

Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, who attended a breakfast meeting with Panetta and several other reporters Monday, reported that the former leader of the CIA and Pentagon under Obama was questioning his ex-boss’ leadership. “You have to engage in the process,” Panetta said. “This is a town where it’s not enough to feel you have the right answers. You’ve got to roll up your sleeves and you’ve got to really engage in the process … that’s what governing is all about.”

A Democrat close to Panetta said the Californian was speaking generally about issues he has had with the president’s lack of leadership inside Washington – most of them not yet aired publicly – rather than merely about this month’s clash, which Panetta mostly lays at the feet of the GOP.

Another high ranking Democrat with ties to both the White House and Capitol Hill pointed to the first failed days of Obamacare. While Republicans look “insane,” he said, Obama is making Democrats look “incompetent.”

“It’s all about winning with this White House,” said the Democrat who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid retribution from the White House. “It’s not about governing. It’s not about holding people accountable. It’s not about solving big problems.”

If Obama could finagle a budget deal out of the GOP, voters would almost certainly welcome the break from gridlock. His declining approval ratings might reverse. Higher ratings might help him rescue his stalled agenda (including immigration reform) and a wilting legacy. Obama was right to call the GOP’s bluff: Bowing to their demands would have been poor politics for him and a poor precedent for future politics. But the country gained nothing beyond another short-term deal that punts the long-term problem. Now what?

Okay, we get it: Obama is a winning politician. What’s in serious doubt is whether he will be remembered as a successful president.

]]>By: Bellehttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/16/cory-booker-projected-winner-of-nj-senate-race/comment-page-2/#comment-7410545
Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:25:26 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=283292#comment-7410545Yep, elections have consequences. Hey, VA, hope you like that hope & change when you elect a Clinton clone.
Back to Cory Booker…my crystal ball says he’ll be President some day….say, when investors will give the cold shoulder to purchasing our debt & the print in the presses dry up.
Great website, Resist.
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Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:22:09 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=283292#comment-7410538One further off topic thought regarding the SCOAMF – it’s pretty clear that he has been little more than a pampered prince all of his life as he’s learned little about being gracious, conciliatory, and being a leader.

It’s getting harder and harder to respect the office when the holder of that office is a complete and total arrogant ass.

]]>By: Athoshttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/16/cory-booker-projected-winner-of-nj-senate-race/comment-page-2/#comment-7410527
Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:19:33 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=283292#comment-7410527On Topic – Fundamentally, there will be no real change in the voting record for this seat… the temporary nominee of Christie pretty much voted D on almost all key issues that the Senate faced over the last months.

Off Topic – Listening to the remarks from the SCOAMF, and hope that the GOP Leadership has this on tape and will play these remarks in another 90 days. It’s clear that this petulant, arrogant, and feckless President has learned nothing and fully intends another ‘Lucy and the Football’ moment with the GOP – demanding that they give him his agenda (Cloward / Piven fundamental change)without question or delay. It also proves that this President has no hesitation to lie – knowing full well that the feckless apparatchiks in the lamestream media will not call him on it.

As predicted, the GOP was blamed for the US being placed on a negative watch – as he lied about the reasons offered by Fitch…

As predicted, compromise remains defined as you surrender and I will win. ‘Want to change policy, win an election….’ –

Thanks Vichy Republicans – you sold out to restore 17% of the ‘non-essential’ government, which comprised primarily of closed national parks and monuments (as ordered by the WH to maximize inconvenience and ‘pain’), and do nothing to halt the unsustainable spending and debt trajectories you helped put this country on. You’ve sold yourself out to take the easy path, kick the can down the road, and empower a feckless, petulant, narcissistic, arrogant community organizer who hates this country more than our enemies.

]]>By: ultraconhttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/16/cory-booker-projected-winner-of-nj-senate-race/comment-page-2/#comment-7410500
Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:11:20 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=283292#comment-7410500Obviously NJ is full of absolute morons incapable of making a good decision….. Elections have consequences you people, or don’t you understand that yet?
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Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:54:56 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=283292#comment-7410473

But hey we will get everything back in 2017, right? LOL on whoever believes that.

bgibbs1000 on October 17, 2013 at 10:32 AM

Who is this ‘we’? The GOP? God forbid.

]]>By: William Eatonhttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/16/cory-booker-projected-winner-of-nj-senate-race/comment-page-2/#comment-7410470
Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:53:33 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=283292#comment-7410470A ten point defeat in a blue state where the anointed Dems candidate had a massive edge in media attention and money is not bad, not bad at all.
]]>By: bgibbs1000http://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/16/cory-booker-projected-winner-of-nj-senate-race/comment-page-2/#comment-7410436
Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:32:37 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=283292#comment-7410436Nothing positive in this election at all. Spin it any way you want it still comes up rotten. But hey we will get everything back in 2017, right? LOL on whoever believes that.
]]>By: Resist We Muchhttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/16/cory-booker-projected-winner-of-nj-senate-race/comment-page-2/#comment-7410424
Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:22:55 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=283292#comment-7410424

How to sugar-coat a defeat!

cajunpatriot on October 17, 2013 at 10:16 AM

If Lonegan had won, it would have been a miracle. KingGold, et al, claim that a moderate would have won. If that is true, then why did Lonegan outperform all of the so-called moderates that have run for Senate in New Jersey in a dozen years?

Lonegan lost, but his principled campaign showed the strength of conservative activists in a state that hasn’t voted Republican for president in a quarter-century. Since the campaign culminated with the government shutdown in Washington, it can’t be said that voters rose up to protest Republicans as Obama and Booker urged. In defeat, Lonegan won a higher percentage of the vote for U.S. Senate than any Republican in the Garden State has gotten in a dozen years.

Democrats did everything they could to portray yesterday’s special election for a Senate seat in New Jersey as a referendum on Republicans and the Tea Party. They clearly fell short of their expectations as Democrat Cory Booker underperformed his showing in almost all the polls, and wound up winning by only 10.3 points. By contrast, President Obama won New Jersey by 18 points just last November. At the same time, Democratic senator Robert Menendez cruised to a 19-point victory over a veteran moderate Republican state senator.

In a video released on Monday, President Obama had urged people to vote for Democrat Cory Booker “to send a message to the entire country about what kind of leadership we expect from our representatives in Congress, that we’re better than the shutdown politics we’ve seen in Washington.” Booker himself endlessly referred to Republican Steve Lonegan’s time as head of the state’s chapter of Americans for Prosperity, a tea-party-aligned group.

But Booker’s strategy didn’t seem to work and may even have energized Lonegan’s base. Booker had a 35-point lead only six weeks ago. A Rutgers-Eagleton poll released just last Monday still showed him with at 58 percent to 36 percent lead. Quinnipiac’s poll released on Tuesday had Booker with a 14-point lead. Only the Monmouth University poll that came out on Monday properly pegged Booker with a ten-point lead.

Lonegan lost, but his principled campaign showed the strength of conservative activists in a state that hasn’t voted Republican for president in a quarter-century. Since the campaign culminated with the government shutdown in Washington, it can’t be said that voters rose up to protest Republicans as Obama and Booker urged. In defeat, Lonegan won a higher percentage of the vote for U.S. Senate than any Republican in the Garden State has gotten in a dozen years.

]]>By: Ward Cleaverhttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/16/cory-booker-projected-winner-of-nj-senate-race/comment-page-2/#comment-7410334
Thu, 17 Oct 2013 13:20:40 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=283292#comment-7410334A crook, from New Jersey, in the Senate? What else is new?
]]>By: claudiushttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/16/cory-booker-projected-winner-of-nj-senate-race/comment-page-2/#comment-7410319
Thu, 17 Oct 2013 13:10:54 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=283292#comment-7410319Maybe he could tell us one of his stories now —something with firemen this time. How about the time he saved a fireman from a burning building? He carried him down from the 3rd floor —no make that the 4th floor.